HarrisMartin's Webinar Series: Benzene Litigation - Using Genomics in the Courtroom

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Agenda:

2:00 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.

Welcome

Catherine Pyune McEldowney, Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC, Wilmington, DE
Howard E. Jarvis, Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC, Knoxville, TN

2:10 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

The Ever-Expanding Docket and Future Trends in Benzene and Toxic Tort Litigation

• The Increasing Role of Family History in Understanding the Development of Cancers Such As AML, MDS, NHL and Multiple Myeloma
• Update on Current Litigation
Howard E. Jarvis, Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC, Knoxville, TN
Catherine Pyune McEldowney, Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC, Wilmington, DE
D. Mark Jackson, Bassi Edlin Huie & Blum, San Francisco
Larry J. Chilton, Chilton Yambert Porter LLP, Chicago

2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Hear From the Experts on The Use of Genomics in the Courtroom in 2021

Moderator: Howard E. Jarvis, Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC, Knoxville, TN

Len van Zyl, Ph.D., CEO and CSO, ArrayXpress, Inc., Raleigh, NC
John B. Sullivan Jr., M.D., MBA, Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Steve Gold, Professor of Law and Judge Raymond J. Dearie Scholar, Rutgers Law School, Newark, NJ

3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Round Table Discussion of Benzene Litigation

Catherine Pyune McEldowney, Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC, Wilmington, DE
Howard E. Jarvis, Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC, Knoxville, TN
Len van Zyl, Ph.D., CEO and CSO, ArrayXpress, Inc., Raleigh, NC
John B. Sullivan Jr., M.D., MBA, Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
D. Mark Jackson, Bassi Edlin Huie & Blum, San Francisco
Larry J. Chilton, Chilton Yambert Porter LLP, Chicago
Steve Gold, Professor of Law and Judge Raymond J. Dearie Scholar, Rutgers Law School, Newark, NJ

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Contributors

Catherine Pyune McEldowney, Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC, Wilmington, DE

Cathie Pyune McEldowney serves as national counsel for a Fortune 50 company and is the firm's national toxic tort chemicals, environmental and personal injury litigation coordinator.
Howard E. Jarvis, Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC, Knoxville, TN

Howard E. Jarvis is a Director at the firm with extensive experience in toxic tort, environmental, product liability and insurance defense litigation.
Len van Zyl, Ph.D., CEO and CSO, ArrayXpress, Inc., Raleigh, NC
John B. Sullivan Jr., M.D., MBA, Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Dr. Sullivan is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine in the College of Medicine at The University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. He is Associate Medical Director of the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center and he maintains an active medical toxicology clinic practice in Tucson, Arizona.
D. Mark Jackson, Bassi Edlin Huie & Blum, San Francisco

D. Mark Jackson has been with the firm since 2005 and an equity partner since 2009. Mark is an experienced trial lawyer and honored to be in the courtroom trying cases before juries. Mark also practices civil appeals and writs and has written and contributed to briefs on such issues as federal preemption, anti-SLAPP, choice of law, and on appeals from jury verdicts. Mark has delivered oral argument before the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District.
Steve Gold, Professor of Law and Judge Raymond J. Dearie Scholar, Rutgers Law School, Newark, NJ

Steve C. Gold is an environmental lawyer with extensive litigation experience. He focuses his scholarship on toxic torts and hazardous substance regulation and cleanup. Before joining the law school, he was senior attorney in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. A former articles editor of the Yale Law Journal, he clerked for U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie of New York after graduating from Yale Law School.
Larry J. Chilton, Chilton Yambert Porter LLP, Chicago

Larry is a founding Partner of the firm. For over 25 years, his trial and appellate litigation practice has focused on the defense of companies in the oil and chemical industries in toxic tort, transportation, environmental and related class action litigation in state and federal courts. He frequently serves as lead coordinating counsel, jointly retained by multiple defendants, and has extensive experience in structuring and managing such joint defenses. He has extensive trial experience with numerous published jury verdicts in cases involving wrongful death, cancer, traumatic brain injuries, amputations and other catastrophic injuries.